That article is basically a propaganda piece for the DWP.
Makes sense as long as we are investigating politicians’ accounts (onshore and offshore if possible) as well
> The latest national statistics confirm that in the last year fraud and error rates in 2023 fell to 3.6% (£8.3 billion) from 4.0% (£8.7 billion), with Universal Credit losses falling from 14.7% (£5,920 million) to 12.8% (£5,540 million).
the figures here are pitifully small, so they’ve saved less than a billion? Compare that to fraud over covid (and I think the amount spent on eat out to help out alone was more than this, £850 million or so)
I get that fraud has to be addressed, but there needs to be a balance as the amount of suffering the DWP inflicts is monumental
under the tories, I guess the suffering is the point though ><
*edit:* particularly with the concluding paragraph in mind:
> False reports of benefit fraud are common in the UK, with some studies indicating there are around 140,000 made each year.
>
> Until the DWP determines that there is no case against you, there is little you can do. Co-operate as best as you can and remember that those found to have reported falsely through malicious reasons may end up being prosecuted
Funny how they somehow can’t check to see if weird tax avoidances are just scams, like did they ask Jimmy Carr to describe the cars he’d sold or whatever it was
If Its a fair blanket rule across society regardless of status and wealth, go for it.
They can fuck off if they think they can dictate what I do with my hard earned cash.because I am on the back burner and rarely need them.
I don’t even need to click the link to know this will be from a Reach Media network ‘news’ site. They will have basically taken this recent press release from Gov.uk:
And used it to generate an article which will be cross-posted across their entire network of new sites, typically with an inflammatory title. I know over on /r/dwphelp said articles would be regularly submitted by a particular user who would then spam the place with numerous nonsensical questions.
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That article is basically a propaganda piece for the DWP.
Makes sense as long as we are investigating politicians’ accounts (onshore and offshore if possible) as well
> The latest national statistics confirm that in the last year fraud and error rates in 2023 fell to 3.6% (£8.3 billion) from 4.0% (£8.7 billion), with Universal Credit losses falling from 14.7% (£5,920 million) to 12.8% (£5,540 million).
the figures here are pitifully small, so they’ve saved less than a billion? Compare that to fraud over covid (and I think the amount spent on eat out to help out alone was more than this, £850 million or so)
I get that fraud has to be addressed, but there needs to be a balance as the amount of suffering the DWP inflicts is monumental
under the tories, I guess the suffering is the point though ><
*edit:* particularly with the concluding paragraph in mind:
> False reports of benefit fraud are common in the UK, with some studies indicating there are around 140,000 made each year.
>
> Until the DWP determines that there is no case against you, there is little you can do. Co-operate as best as you can and remember that those found to have reported falsely through malicious reasons may end up being prosecuted
Funny how they somehow can’t check to see if weird tax avoidances are just scams, like did they ask Jimmy Carr to describe the cars he’d sold or whatever it was
If Its a fair blanket rule across society regardless of status and wealth, go for it.
They can fuck off if they think they can dictate what I do with my hard earned cash.because I am on the back burner and rarely need them.
I don’t even need to click the link to know this will be from a Reach Media network ‘news’ site. They will have basically taken this recent press release from Gov.uk:
>https://www.gov.uk/government/news/benefit-fraud-and-error-falling-after-government-crackdown
And used it to generate an article which will be cross-posted across their entire network of new sites, typically with an inflammatory title. I know over on /r/dwphelp said articles would be regularly submitted by a particular user who would then spam the place with numerous nonsensical questions.